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Object Description
Interview no. | A-0142 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | A.1. Southern Politics: Bass-DeVries Interviews |
Project description | Interviews, 1973-1975, conducted by Jack Solomon Bass and Walter De Vries with political leaders, journalists, editors, party officials, political scientists, campaign directors, union officials, and civil rights leaders from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia, as part of a study of politics in the South, 1945-1974. |
Date | December 11, 1973 |
Interviewee | Sitton, Claude. |
Interviewee occupation | Journalists |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Bass, Jack. |
Abstract | Importance of race in Southern politics today; analysis of Mayor Lighner's victory in Raleigh; discussion of N.C. as more progressive than other Southern states; analysis of 1972 state elections and significance of party loyalties; place of Helms in Republican Party; analysis of Democratic Party in N.C. and leadership vacuum; Southern perspectives to national elections--Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Goldwater. |
Subject Topical |
North Carolina--Politics and government. Southern States--Race relations. |
Subject Name | Democratic Party (N.C.) |
Citation | Interview with Claude Sitton by Jack Bass, 11 December 1973. A-0142 in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
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Interview no. | A0142_Transcript |